Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GPL Violation of 'sveasoft' with GPL Linux Kernel/Busybox +code | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:04:56 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> said:
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> I am saying that you cannot condition a decision to give someone > code that is covered by the GPL on their promise not to exercise their > rights under the GPL. You cannot impose a penalty upon someone for > exercising their rights under the GPL. All these things are additional > restrictions.
They aren't, really. Giving you a right on condition you don't exercise it is not giving you that right, period. In any case, IANAL, so... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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